About the Bloggers
Eileen Norcross is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she specializes in federal, state, and local budget, tax, and spending issues. Before joining the Mercatus Center, Eileen worked as a journalist covering tax and international trade issues, as a researcher with Thomson Financial Services, and as a consultant at KPMG in New Jersey. She is the co-founder, with Jerry Brito, of StimulusWatch.org. Eileen is a native of New Jersey and did her undergraduate and graduate work in economics at Rutgers University; she currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband and their two children. [Follow Eileen on Twitter]
Matt Mitchell is a research fellow with the State and Local Policy Project at the Mercatus Center, where his research focuses on spending and budget issues, particularly the ways in which government policy is developed and how it impacts various measure of well-being. Matt received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and a B.A. in political science and B.S. in economics from Arizona State University. A native of New Mexico, Matt now lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife and daughter. Friends report that most converstaions with Matt eventually circle back to New Mexico and Hatch Green Chili.
Dan Rothschild is Managing Director of the State and Local Policy Project at the Mercatus Center, where he manages the Center’s State and Local Policy Project and Gulf Coast Recovery Project. Before joining the Mercatus Center, Dan was an Eben Tisdale Fellow at the Computing Research Association. He earned his BA in history from Grinnell College, his MA in modern British history from the University of Manchester, and his MPP from the Ford School at the University of Michigan. A native of Houston, Texas married to a native of Appleton, Wisconsin, he lives in Arlington, Virginia where it snows just enough every winter to make neither party happy.
Robert Nelson is professor of public policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Bob has written extensively about urban planning and interior policy, and his books include Zoning and Property Rights (MIT Press, 1977); Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond (Penn State Press, 2001), and Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government (Urban Institute Press, 2005). Before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, Bob spent 17 years as an economist with the U.S. Department of the Interior. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and has been a visiting fellow or researcher at the Brookings Institution, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Political Economy Research Center, and the Center for Applied Social Sciences of The University of Zimbabwe.
Emily Washington recently completed the Mercatus Masters Fellowship and her MA in economics at George Mason University. She has been interested in local governance issues since her experience as an intern in the Planning Department in her hometown, Grand Junction, Colorado. In addition to working as a Research Assistant at the Mercatus Center, Emily is an intern with the Pigtown Office of the Baltimore Development Corporation, where works to promote successful entrepreneurial activity. She earned her BA in economics from Goucher College.
Aaron Merrill is a program manager at the Mercatus Center. He received his JD in 2009 from the University of Maine School of Law and his BA in Philosophy from Gettysburg College in rural Pennsylvania. His interest in policy questions was sparked during his focus on Constitutional Law and jurisprudence classes. He previously worked for the Maine Heritage Policy Center on state legal issues. He moved to Arlington to be closer to Chipotle burritos, which are sadly lacking in the great north woods.
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